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Self-propelled particles serve as minimal models for emulating the dynamic self-organization of microorganisms, yet most synthetic systems remain limited to a single mode of motion, namely active Brownian particles (ABPs). Here, we present…

We consider active Brownian particles that intermittently switch between active and inactive states. Such behavior is ubiquitous at all scales, from bacteria to animals and in artificial active systems. We derive exact expressions for key…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-24 Fernando Peruani , Debasish Chaudhuri

Active Brownian particles (ABPs) are termed out to be a successful way of modeling the moving microorganism on the substrate. In recent studies, it is shown that such organisms can sense the characteristics of the substrate. Motivated by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-31 Pawan Kumar Mishra , Ajeya Krishna , Shradha Mishra

Intelligent behavior in life-like systems often arises from the ability to gather, process, and act on information. While active matter provides a framework for studying life-like dynamics, it typically omits internal information-processing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-02 Kristian Stølevik Olsen , Mitsusuke Tarama , Hartmut Löwen

Differently from passive Brownian particles, active particles, also known as self-propelled Brownian particles or microswimmers and nanoswimmers, are capable of taking up energy from their environment and converting it into directed motion.…

Particles kicked by external forces to produce mobility distinct from thermal diffusion are an iconic feature of the active matter problem. Here, we map this onto a minimal model for experiment and theory covering the wide time and length…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-21 Jin Tae Park , Govind Paneru , Chulan Kwon , Steve Granick , Hyuk Kyu Pak

We study steady-state properties of a bath of active Brownian particles (ABPs) in two dimensions in the presence of two fixed, permeable (hollow) disklike inclusions, whose interior and exterior regions can exhibit mismatching motility…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-20 Mahmoud Sebtosheikh , Ali Naji

Biological microswimmers often inhabit a porous or crowded environment such as soil. In order to understand how such a complex environment influences their spreading, we numerically study non-interacting active Brownian particles (ABPs) in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-12-06 Maria Zeitz , Holger Stark

We investigate exploration patterns of a microswimmer, modeled as an active Brownian particle, searching for a target region located in a well of an energy landscape and separated from the initial position of the particle by high barriers.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-02 Luigi Zanovello , Pietro Faccioli , Thomas Franosch , Michele Caraglio

In this book chapter we describe recent applications of artificial intelligence and in particular machine learning to active matter systems. Active matter is composed of agents, or particles, that are capable of propelling themselves. While…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-16 Hartmut Löwen , Benno Liebchen

In this work, we report a new method to simulate active Brownian particles (ABPs) in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Immersed in a fluid, each ABP consists of a head particle and a spherical phantom region of fluid where the flagellum…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-15 Liya Wang , Xinpeng Xu , Zhigang Li , Tiezheng Qian

Inspired by groups of animals and robots, we study the collective dynamics of large numbers of active particles, each one trying to get to its own randomly placed target, while avoiding collisions with each other. The particles we study are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-09 Mathias Casiulis , Dov Levine

We demonstrate that deep learning techniques can be used to predict motility induced phase separation (MIPS) in suspensions of active Brownian particles (ABPs) by creating a notion of phase at the particle level. Using a fully connected…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-19 Austin R. Dulaney , John F. Brady

Finding the best strategy to minimize the time needed to find a given target is a crucial task both in nature and in reaching decisive technological advances. By considering learning agents able to switch their dynamics between standard and…

Accurate localization is a critical requirement for most robotic tasks. The main body of existing work is focused on passive localization in which the motions of the robot are assumed given, abstracting from their influence on sampling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Daniel Honerkamp , Suresh Guttikonda , Abhinav Valada

An information particle can acquire active-like motion through transforming the information entropy into effective self-propulsion velocity/force using the attached information engine. We consider an underdamped Brownian particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-09 Xin Song , Xiji Shao , Yanwen Zhu , Cheng Yang , Linli He , Shigeyuki Komura , Zhanglin Hou

The transport of active particles may occur in complex environments, in which it emerges from the interplay between the mobility of the active components and the quenched disorder of the environment. Here we explore structural and dynamical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-31 Fergus J. Moore , John Russo Tanniemola B. Liverpool , C. Patrick Royall

What do humans do when confronted with a common challenge: we know where we want to go but we are not yet sure the best way to get there, or even if we can. This is the problem posed to agents during spatial navigation and pathfinding, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jeremy Gordon , John Chuang

The active Brownian particle (ABP) model describes a swimmer, synthetic or living, whose direction of swimming is a Brownian motion. The swimming is due to a propulsion force, and the fluctuations are typically thermal in origin. We present…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-18 Jean-Luc Thiffeault , Jiajia Guo

Active transport of biomolecular condensates and cell migration in collectives are fundamental to development, homeostasis, and processes such as cancer progression, wound healing, and infection response. Yet how these assemblies are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-24 Hossein Vahid , Jens-Uwe Sommer , Abhinav Sharma
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